Tuesday, 24 March 2009

‘Smoke flavoured reformed ham with added water’

I need to write my conclusion. It shouldn’t be a particularly hard piece to write, but writer’s block has hit. Of all the times…

So, as a tactic to get my writing flowing again, I thought that I would spend 15 minutes writing a quick post. I’ve missed writing my blog the last couple of days, in a strange way it has really helped me with writing the thesis.

Since the weekend I’ve effectively been banned from the kitchen. I miss it. However, it is nice having someone to provide every meal for me at the moment, I really appreciate it.

Before I was banned from the kitchen, in need of a quick lunch last week and with me having forgotten to make any bread, I rummaged through the freezer and pulled out a pizza. Great! Then I read the label. How can a description of ‘Smoke flavoured reformed ham with added water’, sound appetising to anyone? I suppose it saves having to check the ingredients on the back of the box.

Why on earth had we bought the pizza? We obviously didn’t read the label, but then I’m not sure how long it had been in the freezer for!

Faced with this pizza for lunch, with no other quick alternative, I set about chiselling off the the ham, adding some local bacon from the fridge and a few scraps of Cumbrian cheese. It was lovely. But this will be our last shop-bought pizza. From now on (once I’ve finished the PhD and I’m allowed back in the kitchen) we’ll be making our own.

The next time I write a post, the PhD will be handed in and I will have my life back (hopefully). I can’t quite imagine what that will feel like!

10 comments:

I haven't bought a ready made pizza (or sandwich meat like ham) for about 6 months now and your post has reminded me why! I love homemade pizza. It isn't as hard as people imagine and is well worth the effort.

Two reasons for the ban:1)I am the world's messiest cook. It is no exaggeration that whatever I cook, I will use almost every utensil in the kitchen. So cooking (and the cleaning) takes up time that I don't really have at the moment!

2)With other things on my mind, I keep forgetting the simple things (like to make bread); and I keep putting things away in the the wrong place, like biscuits in the fridge rather than the biscuit-tin and cheese in the cupboard...

So, it's for: my own sanity, so we still have food to eat, and hopefully to stop me getting distracted!

Did you manage to finish in time? I finished my MA dissertation the week before Christmas - so I know what you've been going through! Such a relief though when it's over and you can get back to normality again!

Psychgrad - good luck with the defense! I can't even imagine that stage yet!

Suzie - I'm still going on the thesis, luckily the proper deadline in Tuesday (I just wanted to give myself a couple of days to recover before going back to work at 8:30 on Wednesday morning. No such luck!

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I started writing the blog for different reasons, it initially followed the ups and downs of trying to finish my PhD. However, the nice thing about a blog is that it isn't a finished work (unlike a PhD!), instead it's more like a work in progress. For that reason, as my life has changed, so has the direction of the blog, who knows where it will go next...